Category: Europe
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Since 2 August the EU has been enforcing the AI Act, and new transparency rules now require chatbots to identify themselves and deepfakes to be labelled. What changed, how the law is built, and the two separate criticisms of it.
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Cows are giving less milk, winter hay is being eaten in August, and one protected cheese cannot legally switch to the obvious substitute. How a dry summer works its way from a scorched pasture to a wheel of Tête de Moine — and what Bern has done about it.
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On 27 September Swiss voters decide whether to write a strict definition of neutrality into the constitution, barring sanctions and military alliances without a UN mandate. The government opposes it, one party backs it — and Russia has publicly endorsed a yes.
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Sweden elects all 349 members of the Riksdag on 13 September, along with 21 regional and 290 municipal councils. How the system works, who the main contenders are, what the polls suggest — and why the polls are not the result.
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Close to 1,000 people sat Sweden’s first civics test for citizenship on 15 August in Älvsjö. Sixty questions, ninety minutes, Swedish only — and a pass mark that has not been set yet. What the test is, and what is still undecided.
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A new study of the 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election finds voters shifted right on tax, immigration and climate measures between 2021 and 2025 — even though Labour won the most seats. What an election survey can and cannot tell you.
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Norwegian goods entering the United States now carry an extra 12.5 per cent duty, while most EU goods face 10 per cent. The reason given is forced labour rules — but the gap says more about who has a trade agreement with Washington and who does not.
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Italy’s longest river has fallen to historically low levels during the fourth heatwave of the summer. Why the Po matters more than any other river in the country, and what has changed to bring it to this repeatedly.
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Ukrainian drones are producing power outages, fuel shortages and phone cuts across Crimea, twelve years after Russia’s seizure of the peninsula. What Crimea depends on, and what Ukraine’s campaign is calculated to change.
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Hundreds of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this weekend. Moroccan authorities fended them off this time — raising the same question as before about how much these events are decided at the fence.